LIONS GATE HOSPITAL Home IV program launched TOR LUND spent last Christmas at home, thanks to an innovative new hos- pital-community partner- ship program at Lions Gate Hospital (LGH). By A.P. McCredie News Reporter The Home-lV (intravenous) Program at LGH allows patients who are fighting infection with antibodies that are supplied through an intravenous tube in their arm to receive their medication in the comforts of their own home. Lund needed an IV to fight a skin infection. After meeting the criteria for the program, he was able to have a North Shore Health home-care nurse visit his home daily to help in administering the IV. “Il would recommend it to anyone,”’ said the fully recov- ered Lund from his North Van- couver home. Lund was recommended to the program by his doctor. After spending three days at LGH, Lund was sent home with a boxful of antibiotics, tubing, and other equipment’ for the home IV. After eight days on the IV at home — cight days that previously would have been spent in the hospital — Lund was off the program. The only time a patient in the “program need visit the hospital is once every three days to have the catheter re-sited. therapy clinician Marie Brazier devised the LGH pro- gram after studying four pilot home-IV programs in other hospitals in the province. ‘From a nursing perspective, 1 find the major advantage of these programs is the holistic value of having a patient in the familiar surroundings of their ‘own home,” said Brazier. “In this age of - tightening health-cost dollars, the program creates bed spaces at LGH, . which is a majer plus for the « hospital. It also. spares the cost of the full cost of having an 1V patient in the hospital, $500 a day. Five patients have participated in’ the program since its im- plementation on Oct. 1, 1992. Brazier is hoping to average which is about - NEWS photo Cindy Goodman HOME Vv program coordinator Marie Brazier (right) checks the hand of Tor Lund, one of five patlente who have par- ticipated In the Innovative and cost-saving program. Home- care nurse Daphne Keddy, who visited Lund at home daily while he was on the program. looks on. about 70a ysar. ~ The criteria for iY program candidates: @ they must be a North Shore resident with a family physician that’ has medical privileges at LGH; @ they must complications; @ they must be able to get to the hospital once every three days; @ and they must be willing to take a crash course in IV methods. Brazier’s program differs from the other home IV programs in the province by offering both partial and complete program:. The partial program is for pa- have no. other tients who are unable to fully lonk after the IVs themselves ~— ig they have bad eyesight perhaps. In such circumstances, a home-care nurse can be sent to a patient's home each day and check up on the IV. The complete program — the style offered at other hospitals — involves patients looking after the IV themselves, Patients on the program are given a personalized chart to fill out daily. The chart comes complete with a glossary of terms and a trouble-shooting guide should any complications arise. NV school official disputes adi inistrative salary figures Brayne says Schreck comparing ‘apples to oranges’ NORTH VANCOUVER-Lonsdale NDP MLA David. Schreck is wrong when he suggests several North Van- couver School District 44 (NVSB) administrators, including principals, are earning over $100,000 a year, District 44 superintendent Dr. Robin Brayne has said. Last week, Schreck’. released District 44 administrative salaries and said.33 administrators were eaming over $90,000 a year, while 17. others . were making over $100,000 ayear. Schreck also noted Brayne’s salary was $158,000 a year. The “full list of. fi igures ..was published i in the Jan. 29 News. But Brayne.said Schreck . was comparing ‘“‘apples to oranges.” The.MLA, he said, had includ- ed benefits and retroactive pay that. By Surj Rattan . News Reporter raises when determining District 44 salaries. He added. that January. 1993 payroll figures. show that senior _ District 44 administrators are cur- rently, paid ' between . $94,692 and $125,711 annually. Brayne. said his salary is $125,711 a year without benefits. Annual District 44 salaries for principals currently range between Teachers’ union: Page 5 $65,077 and $92,543, without benefits. District 44 vice-principals make between $61,287 and $79,060 a year without benefits. Brayne said District 44 teachers are paid between $30,856 and $66,328 annually without benefits. District 44 teachers . currently - work {87 days per year; five of those days are professional, or non-teaching days, Brayne: said District 44 ad- ministrators are on contracts. He said there were no set amount. of work days for ad- ministrators. : 12-month - Decline in coaches reducing scope of athletics programs NORTH VANCOUVER secondary school students are being turned away from athletic participation because declines in coaching and funding are preventing schools from fielding teams to meet the demand, ac- cording to North Shore Secondary Schools Athletics Association (NSSSAA) ex- ecutive Vince Alvano. By Kevin Gillies Contributing Writer Alvano’s concerns were includ- ed in a recent report on the state of North. Shore high school athletics presented to the North Vancouver District 44 School Board. ; The report was put together by Alvano aad fellow NSSSAA exec- utives Len Corben and ‘Mike Rockwell. The NSSSAA represents 15 high schools: cight’ in North Van- couver, three in West Vancouver, two in Squamish and two in- dependent schools (St. Thomas Aquinas and Collingwood). The NSSSAA renort listed a number of secondary school athletics ‘‘challenges”’ ® the perceived importance or priority of athletics within the education system; @ fewer teachers willing and/or able to coach teams than in previous years; @ fundraising and collecting of extra fees from participants have become unwelcome, additional burdens to the role of teachers in- volved in coaching. Corben, the NSSSAA’s co- ordinator of athletics, said the fundraising aspect of coaching is taking its toll on teachers and athletic directors who should be spending most of their energy on coaching. Athletic departments have tradi- tionally been allotted $1,000 an- nually by the school board for uniforms and. other physical education department equipment. They were also given $3,000 per year for transporiation costs. But Corben said budget cut- backs have reduced the funds for uniforms and transportation to. almost nothing. Teachers, who are not. paid to coach, are hesitant to become in- volved with a team if it adds more problems and stress to their jobs. Corben said. administrative duties and problems discourage teachers from wanting to coach. He added that coaches: have to do more now to accomplish the same end as in the past. The report said the community is increasingly being tapped for coaching. The situation has greatly. in- creased the time needed for recruiting, co-ordinating and supervising non-staff coaches. It also creates difficulties with program continuity and desired educational philosophies. Corben maintains, however, that the NSSSAA hasn’t decreased its number of teams substantially, considering: the drop in student. population. According to figures. distributed at the Jan. 12 District 44 school "NORTH VANCOUVER SCHOOL BOARD board meeting, in 1974-75 NSSSAA member schools had a collective population of 12,933. Last year’s population of 9,799 represents a drop of approximate- ly 24%. Over the same period, high school teams dropped from 517 to Jast year’s 403 - by 22%. Alvano, who has been. Argyle secondary’s athletic director for the last three years. and Sutherland's athletic director for the year before, said students have appreached him about forming school teams, but he has had to turn them down. “If we can’t find a coach, then we can’t run a team,”’ he said. He claimed that Argyle had 48 teams in 1978 compared with 29 in 1992. The interest is there from stu. dents, he said, but with fewer teachers volunteering their time, there's going to be fewer teams, Alvano claims the education system’s lack of emphasis on athletics is partly responsible for many of the youth-related, social - problems facing the North Shore. He cited an example in which .. Argyle and Sutherland were in- vited to play a soccer game before the President’s Cup college soccer , final at Swangard stadium last year. After the game, approximately 100 students went to a local res- taurant for a pizza party at 10 p.m. ; “That’s almost: 10% of the school population kept busy for an evening by a sports function,” he said. “If a teacher can have the time to organize things like that... then you don’t just have the athletes being occupied, you have a part of the whole school wanting to support (the team) and to be a part of it.’ ‘Sports is about identity, belonging and feeling a part of something,” he said. ‘‘It’s not just about ‘throwing a ball around.” Corben agrees, “There’s no question that whether it’s athletics or other ex- tra-curricular activities, (they) would, and do currently, go a long way to providing the outlets ,that kids need for their energy, "goals, social interaction and just their overall development.” ; index & Cocktails & Caviar ...25 @ High Profiles 3 Horoscopes... @ Lifestyles Weather: Monday and Tuesday, rain. Highs 10°C, low 3°C. 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